It was just last week that an #Occupy LA protester was arrested for masturbating on the steps of City Hall. Now the squatters are getting their own private office building.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has decided to award the lawlessness, lewd acts, shoplifting and drug use of the Occupy LA squatters. He just offered the hooligans 10,000 square feet of downtown office space and farmland for $1-a-year. The LA Times reported:

Los Angeles officials have offered Occupy L.A. protesters a package of incentives that includes downtown office space and farmland in an attempt to persuade them to abandon their camp outside of City Hall, according to several demonstrators who have been in negotiations with the city.

The details of the proposal were revealed Monday during the demonstrations nightly general assembly meeting by Jim Lafferty, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild who has been advocating on behalf of the protest since it began seven weeks ago.

Lafferty said city officials have offered protesters a $1-a-year lease on a 10,000-square-foot office space near City Hall. He said officials also promised land elsewhere for protesters who wish to farm, as well as additional housing for the contingent of homeless people who joined the camp.

A spokesman for the mayor would not comment on the proposal, saying only: We are in negotiations with organizers of Occupy L.A.

LA can do this right now because their economy is strong. But if things get tight, this could backfire.

HAHAHAHA! Just kidding. :-D

They’re idiots, in a “Chris Matthews sort of way”*.

*Sincerely stupid liberals. They really do believe in a utopian fantasy with as much religious zeal as Christians believe in the atoning blood of Christ. But the former worship a false god that will, and in many cases, already has, let them down.

I have argued with hippie commies that America is great. A group of their hippie commie brethern could join funds and buy a farm and live out their hippie commie utopian dream.
More power to you.
However, it is not for government (other people’s tax payer money) to support some brain dead hippie commie utopian fantasy.

Well, the city better be careful.
They must offer the same to all others who wish to exercise 1st Amendment rights or else they would be violating that Amendment and equal protection provisions of the Constitution as amended.

...so who is going to pay to insure this property? Its just a matter of time before someone gets injured, raped, murdered with this crowd, and then ba-bam...lawsuit against the city for facilitating this set up in the first place.

This could become hilarious. Imagine what would happen if you got, say, a 200 acre foreclosed spread, threw in a wooden barracks ranch house, free irrigation and seed, as well as hand tools. All set up to farm, just add hard work and everything you grow is yours, you freaks, tax free.

And put about 50 OWS types on it. BIG fence, to like “keep them safe”, or something.

So the mayor of LA owns 10k sq ft of downtown office space and, an undetermined amount of farmland... It’s really nice of him to forfeit HIS property to the squatters. Apparently the mayor of LA is independently wealthy.

Isnt this just like negotiating with terrorists? Whats wrong with these people (and Im not talking about the occupiers this time).

You don't understand L.A. politics. Tony Villar, the Mayor, would be out demonstrating with the rowdies if he didn't have his political career to think of. His goal is to become CA governor so he can essentially make the state part of Mexico.

He was a labor organizer before entering politics (sound familiar?) and served as national co-chairman of Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign. He was also a member of Obama's Transitional Economic Advisory Board.

I college he was very active with M.E.Ch.A., the student movement of Aztlan devoted to promoting Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. A passage from its national website says: "As Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlan, we are a nationalist movement of Indigenous Gente that lay claim to the land that is ours by birthright. As a nationalist movement we seek to free our people from the exploitation of an oppressive society that occupies our land."

Tony Villar, the Mayor, would be out demonstrating with the rowdies if he didn’t have his political career to think of. His goal is to become CA governor so he can essentially make the state part of Mexico.

Thanks for the education! I had no idea it is that messed up!
At this point, I would just give it to them. Not much good (exept Ronnie) has come out of California...especially Hollywood.

The problem with these cretons getting these kinds of perks, is that conservatives never sue over them. When a conservative sneezes, some liberal will go to court and file a law suit against the sneezer for contaminating the air. Conservatives just want to live and let live.

That’s fine. Just let these )@(*@ lib mayors and city official keep supporting this “movement” of whiny middle class kids. It’ll only hurt the dems come election time.
All this is a the radical left “We want more programs” bunch.

They’re nasty, dirty, vile, lazy, spoiled, and their numbers are not even a big deal.
Yet we have to read and hear about them EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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